General Nursing (English line)

About the course

A four-year (240 ECTS) general nursing degree taught in English at the Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, first offered in autumn 2025 and open to EU and non-EU students.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• The university assesses the Irish Leaving Certificate individually and does not publish a fixed Irish requirement. Contact admissions to confirm. Its published general criteria look at your final school-leaving average and your scores in specific subjects (biology, chemistry and physics are named), plus language certificates, relevant volunteering or work experience and recommendation letters. No weights or minimum grades are published.
• No entrance exam and no interview: a faculty-approved commission evaluates your application file against general and faculty-specific criteria.
• English at B2 level or above: a certificate is required unless you completed your secondary studies fully in English.

Working in Ireland afterwards

NMBI recognises EU/EEA nursing qualifications in a separate step before registration, and places each applicant in one of three groups. G1 is the EU automatic recognition pathway (Directive 2005/36/EC, Annex V), where NMBI only checks your paperwork. G2 is the general system, where NMBI also assesses your qualification, and you may have to complete a compensation measure. G3 covers qualifications outside the Directive. Under EU law, automatic recognition normally applies to general care (adult) nursing degrees listed in Annex V. Specialist qualifications such as psychiatric, children’s or intellectual disability nursing usually go through the general system, but NMBI does not publish a list. Its MyNMBI tool tells you which group you are in. English-language requirements also apply.

How to apply

1. Prepare documentsGather your passport, Leaving Certificate results and school documents (legalised/apostilled as required), a recent medical certificate (issued within 6 months), the signed application annexes and, if needed, an English certificate at B2 level or above.
2. Apply onlineCreate an account on admissions.umfcluj.ro, upload your file and pay the EUR 300 processing fee. In 2026, Session I closed 20 May, Session II closed 16 July and an extra round for Nursing (English) closed 12 August.
3. Get your resultA faculty commission evaluates the file. In 2026, results came out on 3 June (Session I), 28 July (Session II) and 20 August (extra round).
4. Confirm your placePay half of the EUR 10,000 annual tuition (non-refundable) by the deadline (16 June or 6 August in 2026). EU students’ studies must then be recognised by Romania’s CNRED, and enrolment takes place in the last two weeks of September.

Costs

• EUR 10,000 per year. The university lists one tuition fee on its international admissions page covering all its English and French programmes, and places are fee-paying (self-paid), so expect to pay it as an EU student. There is also a non-refundable file processing fee of EUR 300, and to confirm your place you must pay half of the annual tuition, which is non-refundable. These are 2026/27 figures.

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